Wireshark protocol-tree denial-of-service vulnerability

Wireshark formerly known as Ethereal is a suite of network packet analysis software developed by the Wireshark team. A security vulnerability exists in the 'prototreeaddbytesitem' function in the epan/proto.c file in the protocol-tree implementation of Wireshark versions 1.12.7 prior to 1.12.x. T...

UBUNTU-CVE-2015-6241

The prototreeaddbytesitem function in epan/proto.c in the protocol-tree implementation in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.7 does not properly terminate a data structure after a failure to locate a number within a string, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash vi...